[TwelveOfTwenty]

The civil war wasn't about slavery it was about states rights and peoples constitutional right to property.

The "state rights" the south was fighting for was the right to own slaves, and the "property" was slaves. I doubt you would have looked at it this way if you were one of those slaves.

Specifically, the federal government wanted to take something of great worth from people without compensation, even freaking Kelo vs New London didn't go that far.

Something? Since when are human beings "things"?

Many studies have concluded that slavery would have petered out on it's own even without the civil war.

Well, the south sure fought a hard fight for something that was going away anyway.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Where did the slaves come from? were white men going around beating the bushes of Africa looking for stray black men and women to enslave? ... or were they just prisoners of tribal warfare between blacks who would have simply been executed (as they are today) if the white slave traders hadn't been purchasing them from the black victors of these tribal conflicts?

People simply ignore the facts and believe what they want to believe or are told to believe by the media.

[DIXIEBELLE2012]

Interesting how you include Palin in with Cain and Bachman. I wasn’t aware that she ran